The Lost History of Jewish Anti-Nationalism
Wednesday, February 24 @ 4 PM (**PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE**)
with Professor Rachel Havrelock from the University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Colorado at Boulder
University Memorial Center, Room 247
Free and open to the public but RSVP's required as space is limited
The Zionist movement framed the settlement of the land and the establishment of the State of Israel as a revival of ancient Jewish nationalism. And indeed, Zionist thinkers and activists relied on biblical precedents in staking their claims. However, as they drew certain stories from the Jewish past, Zionist thinkers neglected to mention other biblical traditions of anti-nationalism and multinationalism. Despite the fact that some key Zionist thinkers including Theodore Herzl, Martin Buber and Judah Magnes proposed and promoted a multinational Jewish state, such multinational traditions have been suppressed. This lecture presents the wide range of Jewish political proposals in the Hebrew Bible and in early Zionist thought.
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